Several years ago, a couple of hundred folks began gathering at Kadish Park on Tuesday nights to listen to music in an area once filled with crime and litter.

As time passed, audiences grew. The park became home to the Skyline Music Series sponsored by the COA Youth & Family Centers, which had transformed the troubled spot into a park with community gardens and playing fields, COA Executive Director Tom Schneider said Monday. | July 8, 2013»Read Full Article(28)

Having Summerfest withdrawal already? Not to worry: Several concerts were announced Monday morning that will take place throughout the rest of the year at the Riverside Theater, the Pabst Theater, Turner Hall Ballroom and Shank Hall.

John Barrowman and his sister Carole will publish their second fantasy novel for kids, 'Bone Quill' (Aladdin), in the U.S. on Tuesday. (It's already out in the United Kingdom, where John is a major media star.)

Like its predecessor, "Hollow Earth," "Bone Quill" is listed as a book for 8- to 12-year-old readers, but will likely find a large adult readership, too. It picks up the adventures of 12-year-old twins Matt and Emily Calder, who have the extraordinary power to bring to life the things (and creatures) they draw. They're hunted by people who want to put their powers to no good use. | July 8, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(2)

SpringGreen — By the end of World War I, nearly 1 million British men had died in Flanders. The Spanish flu was wreaking havoc back home. And W. Somerset Maugham was in a sanatorium with tuberculosis.

Maugham's antidote? Why, write a farce, of course. Ttitled "Home and Beauty," it's long been known in America as "Too Many Husbands," and it's now on stage at American Players Theatre under David Frank's direction. | July 8, 2013»Read Full Article

During her lifetime, Mary Griggs Burke, one of the most important private collectors of Japanese art in the world, kept an extra apartment on New York’s Upper East Side, right next door to another where she lived, for her beloved art objects. She died in December at age 96.

But one of her treasures remains at her historic summer estate in Cable, Wisconsin, which was donated to the Chequamegon National Forest. While small, for what it is, the historic cottage is not so portable. | July 8, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(1)